A college student practicing at the fire station saved the life of a cardiac arrest patient with cardiopulmonary resuscitation and received a "Heart Saver" certification and a certificate.
The student, Eun-hee Kim from the Emergency Medical Technology department at Kyungil University (President, Hyun-tae Chung) was on the scene with paramedics in the rescue of an 84-year-old man having breathing problems last February. She was practicing at Eastern Fire Station in Daegu when paramedics got the request. Sudden cardiac arrest occurred to the patient while the patient was being transported to the hospital. Kim Eun-hee and paramedics tried to recover consciousness with CPR, defibrillation, and oxygen therapy. The elderly patient received proper first aid and their body condition improved enough to be discharged after 3 days.
Daegu Eastern Fire Station awarded a certificate including heart saver to her and paramedics on Wednesday. The leading firefighting headquarters selects heart savers from paramedics and citizens who resuscitate patients having a heart attack. .
Kim Eun-hee said she decided to become a parametic saving the lives of people by watching the Sewol tragedy in the third grade of high school." "It was a valuable lesson to know the importance of responding promptly and calmly in an emergency through the practice.
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